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Shirley Love as Martha in Faust Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

Shirley Love as Martha in Faust Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

$ 11.88

Availability: 95 in stock
  • Size: 8" x 10"
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Genre: Classical, Opera & Ballet
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: Photo has curled. See scan.
  • Industry: Music

    Description

    Shirley Love as Martha in Faust. Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon
    Shirley Love (born January 6, 1940 ) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she studied singing in her home city with Avery Crew before pursuing further voice training with Marinka Gurevich and Margaret Harshaw in New York City. She made her professional opera début at the Metropolitan Opera on November 30, 1963 as the Second Lady in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute with Anna Moffo as Pamina, Nicolai Gedda as Tamino, Gianna D'Angelo as The Queen of the Night,
    Louis Mélançon
    (1901-1974) was the in-house
    photographer
    for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.